Quotes
Quotes about Education
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
